My research focuses on contemporary American literature and, in particular, the ways in which it negotiates the relationship between violence and American national identity. In my dissertation, I examine how texts written by contemporary American veteran authors of the War on Terror generate counternarratives that contest popular imaginings of war, soldiering, and national belonging.
Ari Sivenius ([email protected])
- Doctor of Education
- University Lecturer in Educational Methodology and Research Practice, University of Eastern Finland
- Docent in Educational Science, specialising in socially oriented educational research, Tampere University
- Member of the Editorial Board of Kasvatus & Aika
Ongoing Projects
Phenomenology of Time
Existential Homelessness
The Ontological Status of Experience
Ari Tervashonka ([email protected])
Dr. Ari J. Tervashonka is chairman of Holistic Science association and chairman of Finnish Methodology Society. He is a member of national committee of history of technology and science. His research focuses on theory history, intellectual history, philosophy of science and academic mentoring of students. Tervashonka’s methodological research focuses on qualitative methodology, systematic analysis and its variations.
Research interests
- Systematic analysis
- Intellectual history and theory history
- Philosophy of science
- Methodology (mostly for complex qualitative problems and functionality-based interpretations)
- Interdisciplinary projects and communications
- Mentoring of academically excellent students
- Systems theories
Arindam Ghosh ([email protected])
I am a doctoral researcher within the Biomedical Informatics group led by Vittorio Fortino at the Institute of Biomedicine. My current research focusses on using network biology and machine learning towards improving drug efficacy and safety. I am also a part of the in silico work package of the EDCMET project where I support towards development of tools for understanding the mechanism of actions of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
Arja Lyytinen ([email protected])
I am vice dean (education) in the Faculty of Health Sciences with the duties to develop education.
I am director of the Master’s degree programme in public health and the subject of my teaching is public health nutrition. Mostly I teach in the Master’s degree programme of public health (MPH) and I am responsible on the public health nutrition track. Further, I teach in the nutrition and health promotion programmes. I have been also working in international projects to develop public health teaching.
My research interest is how diet is associated with risk of chronic diseases. I have conducted studies exploring effects of dietary fat and fish on lipid and glucose metabolism as well as the role of diet in musculoskeletal diseases.
Armi Mustosmäki ([email protected])
Currently I am working as academy research fellow in my project “Smart women love money- Reconfigurations of femininity and motherhood in financialised welfare state” funded by the Finnish research council (2023-2027). This project focuses on the proliferation of financial self-help in social media that invites women to save and invest to the financial markets to fight economic gender inequality. The interest is to study how ideas and ideals on femininity, motherhood and intimate relations that are reconstructed and mediated through social media and how are these ideals received, lived, negotiated or resisted in lives of (non)investing women. The project is inspired by economic sociology, feminist media and cultural studies and critical social policy with the aim of understanding welfare state change.
Prior to joining UeF, I worked at the University of Jyväskylä in various research and teaching positions (Senior lecturer in Social and public policy, Lecturer in qualitative methods). My postdoctoral project “Complaining mothers: Affect, moral and politics of medicalisation” (2019-2023) was funded by Kone foundation and explored difficult and forbidden emotions of mothers, especially regretting motherhood as well as public response to ‘maternal complaint’ with tools provided by affect studies.
I have also participated in several projects and studied e.g. Nordic corporatism and gender equality policies, changing organisation of work in public and private sector organisations, lean management, and reconciliation of work and family. My PhD dissertation “How bright are the Nordic lights?” (2017) examined the question on the existence and persistence of the Nordic working life model by studying job quality trends in Nordic countries in a comparative perspective, drawing from institutional and labour process theories and large survey datasets. More information on publications and projects related to work life change you can find on my personal webpage.
Arto Koistinen ([email protected])
Deputy Head of Department is responsible for e.g., strategic development and follow-up related to research, postgraduate education, innovations and reserarch infrastructures.
My duties include actions related to impact through e.g., local and national ecosystems, and collaboration with industry and institutes.
Research
My expertise in the research include research on material technology, especially on material analysis, development of materials and methodology, and material interactions. We are one of the leading teams for microplastics research in Finland. I have lead several microplastics’ research projects (e.g. funded by the Academy of Finland).
Arto Salonen ([email protected])
I am a professor of sustainable well-being at the Department of Social Sciences, in the discipline of social pedagogy. My research focuses on social change for flourishing life in increasingly artificial-intelligence-driven society, where consumption habits and forms of social participation are evolving. My topic for the professor’s inaugural lecture was Planetary citizenship provides a scale for the sustainability transformation.
My theoretical work employs a planetary approach, informing the development of concepts of inclusion and advancing the theory of social pedagogy. Empirically, I focus on the practical implementation of social change. My investigations have addressed sustainable consumption, individuals’ experiences with self-driving cars, and the acceptability of novel food solutions. My approach is interdisciplinary and future-oriented.
I lead the SISU Consortium and Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot in collaboration with ten universities. I am also a member of the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development, which brings science closer to society. In addition, I am an adjunct professor at the following universities:
– University of Helsinki (education),
– Finnish National Defense University (sustainable development), and
– University of Eastern Finland (research for ecosocial well-being).
Further information about my research themes and publications is available on my website.
Arto Urtti ([email protected])
Research work is focused on drug delivery and targeting. The research programme includes aspects of pharmacokinetics and modeling, drug formulation and nanotechnology .
Atte Eskelinen ([email protected])
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the fields of musculoskeletal diseases, osteoarthritis, biomechanics, and mechanobiology. My basic research focuses on experimental (explant culture/bioreactor) and computational modeling of cartilage degradation. As a translational research aspect, I am involved in the development of knee joint level mechanobiological models and preparation of clinical data collection from patients with painful osteoarthritis.
My research aims to build understanding of biomechanical and inflammatory mechanisms linked to osteoarthritis and chronic joint pain. The project is a part of an international consortium (MathKOA – The Center for Mathematical modeling of Knee OsteoArthritis, Aalborg University, Aalborg University Hospital, Lund University, UEF) with an overarching aim to develop personalized predictive models of osteoarthritis progression and pain to optimize treatment strategies for pain-free, musculoskeletal healthcare.